All they did was take down the website that links to the GitHub repository. They already tried to have GitHub pull it, and they did but then restored it and setup a legal defense fund for projects in similar situations which seems like a pretty big “fuck you”.
This story is a nothing-burger, the equivalent of the blue bucket meme.
Looks to me it is just MS playing hard to get with Google.
The article doesn’t mention that YouTube/Google were involved at all. It was the record labels that filed the suit.
… has been blocked due to copyright infringement claims by major music labels Sony, Warner, and Universal …
Yes, the article is not very good. Main players here are google and gihub. My experience with media is that they often don’t publish everything, sometimes because of incompetence sometimes for sponsor money. So we have to use our heads a bit.
Not even mentioning google, not even.asking google what they think of youtube-dl, not even asking MS to comment. Give us at least a question and ‘they said no comment’.
Not really good reporting and we got used to that.
Why would they mention Google at all? Google can’t sue anyone for Copyright Infringement when someone downloads a video off their site, because Google doesn’t own the copyrights of the videos.
I already pay to access the Internet, put your Ads up the butt. I will contribute to the creators I choose.
yt-dlp is an old fork, and very good. It’s insanely fast.
isn’t yt-dlp the one to use anyway? I heard that youtube-dl is deprecated and dlp is the way to go.
Yes
They should just move it to a non-Western jurisdiction.
It was a German court apparently, according to the article
Yes, that would be for the best.
Similar to how certain VPN/Mail clients/journalists (due to leaks) and others are in non-western areas.
I am forgetting some…
edit: word
There is some difference between private communication and open source code that smis available to anyone.
